[11446] in Athena Bugs
duplex printer queue broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jsc@slayer.mit.edu)
Tue Nov 30 01:40:32 1993
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 01:40:06 -0500
From: jsc@slayer.mit.edu
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: op@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jsc@MIT.EDU
I send valid postscript to the duplex queue using lpr -Pprintername2 and
get back a page saying something about undefined commands. People tell
me this is because the duplex queue eats up the first 11 characters of a
Postscript file, assuming that they will be "%!PS-Adobe". This, in my
opinion, is broken behavior and extremely confusing to boot. Not all
Postscript files begin with those characters. Framemaker, for instance,
begins all Postscript output with:
%!
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%Pages: (atend)
%%DocumentFonts: (atend)
%%EndComments
%
% FrameMaker PostScript Prolog 3.0, for use with FrameMaker 3.0
% Copyright (c) 1986,87,89,90,91 by Frame Technology Corporation.
% All rights reserved.
%
% Known Problems:
% Due to bugs in Transcript, the 'PS-Adobe-' is omitted from line 1
